Second Religious Tradition (traditions outside of Christianity)
NOTE: This requirement cannot be met with a course that carries the CTD (Christian Theology in Dialogue) OLECore attribute
AS/RE 256 Religions of China, Korea, and Japan
AS/RE 257 Buddhism
AS/RE 289 Buddhism, Peace, and Justice
REL110 Gender and Judaism (Zager: Fall 2023)
REL110 Jewish Women in their Own Words (Zager: Fall 2025)
REL110 American Indian Spirituality (Sherman-Conroy: Spring 2024; Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
REL110 Creation: An American Indian Ethos (Sherman-Conroy: January 2024, 2025)
REL110 Sacred Storytelling: Indigenous Narratives and Theologies (Sherman-Conroy: Spring 2026)
REL110 Voodoo, Hoodoo, and Hollywood: African Diaspora Religion in the Americas (Rainey: January 2026)
REL 120 Jews in the World of Islam
REL 122 The Hebrew Bible: A Historical and Literary Approach
REL 133 Buddhist Meditative Traditions
REL 215 Gender and Judaism
REL 246 Islam–Religion and Community
REL 248 Judaism
Sacred Texts (Text-oriented studies of sacred texts)
REL 122 The Hebrew Bible: A Historical and Literary Approach
REL 124 A Green Bible?
REL 125 Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges: Engaging the Bible Today
REL 221 Jesus in Scripture and Tradition
REL 271 The Bible in Context: History, Geography, and Culture in Israel and Palestine (study abroad)
REL 275 Religion and Empire in Greece and Turkey (study abroad)
REL 276 The Ethics of Jesus
REL 320 Interpreting Sacred Texts
Religious Thought (Theological and Philosophical Studies of Religious Ideas)
AS/RE 257 Buddhism
AS/RE 289 Buddhism, Peace, and Justice
REL 131 The Secular: Life without Religion?
REL 165 Religion and Science
REL 202 Classics and Moderns
REL 205 Blessed are the Happy? Virtue, Happiness, and the Good Life in Christian Thought
REL 207 Christian Theology and the Moral Life
REL 208 Christian Theology and Human Existence
REL 209 Introduction to Feminist Theology
REL 215 Gender and Judaism
REL 217 Christian and Islamic Ethics: Conflicts and Cross-Pollination
REL 218 Political and Liberation Theology
REL 225 God, Evil, and Human Suffering
REL 227 Moses and Jesus: Jews and Christians in Dialogue
REL 236 How to Make a Life
REL 238 Tolkien and Theology
REL 239 Beyond Narnia: The Theology of C.S. Lewis
REL 241 Ecology, Justice, and the Christian Tradition
REL 244 Theology after the Death of God
REL 245 Theology of Religions and Interreligious Dialogue
REL 247 Theology between Christianity and Islam
REL 252 Religion, Violence, and Peace
REL 254 Theology in Comparative Perspective
REL 263 Roman Catholic Theology
REL 267 African American Religious Thought in the 20th Century
REL 268 The Ethics of War
REL 291 Holding Ethics Accountable
REL 293 Religious Pluralism and the Nature of Community
REL 296 Love, Justice, and Social Relations
REL 302 History of Christian Thought I
REL 303 History of Christian Thought II
REL 304 History of Christian Thought III
REL 344 Feminist Perspectives and Christian Ethics
Religion in History and Culture (Historical Studies of Religious Communities and Cultural Expressions)
AS/RE 256 Religions of China, Korea, and Japan
REL 126 God at the Movies
REL 141 Money and Magic: A History of Gifts, Capital, and Rituals of Exchange
REL 142 Heroes, Villains, and Christianity
REL 212 Christian Theology in Historical Context
REL 213 Lutheran Heritage
REL 214 Reformation Theology
REL 234 Ecospirituality Learning from Place
REL 243 Living Faith: Theology and Practice at Holden Village
REL 246 Islam–Religion and Community
REL 248 Judaism
REL 251 Comparative Mysticism
REL 255 Beauty, Arts, and Religion
REL 260 Religion in America
REL 262 Reformations in Germany and Spain (study abroad)
REL 272 Sacred Place in Greece and Turkey (study abroad)
REL 280 Religion and Literature
REL 293 Religious Pluralism and the Nature of Community
“Updated October 2025”